![]() ![]() This group included various types of dust hazards-mining and manufacturing-and from various parts of this country, east of the Rockies. During this period, we have had the opportunity of studying the chests of over three thousand workmen exposed to a dust hazard in their regular occupation. In some instances the amount of alleged disability among the workmen, from dust, had reached such proportions that insurance companies became insolvent, and the industrial plants were forced to close for lack of compensation insurance protection. During the past five years, the dust hazard in many industries has become a serious economic factor, for the individual workman as well as for the corporation and insurance company. Our approach to this problem has been through the medium of the x-ray. ![]() Excerpt DUST inhalation is a subject in which we have been particularly interested for the past ten years. ↵ 2 This is one of a series of papers contributed by friends and former pupils of I. Boston, Massachusetts ↵ 1 Read (in part) by invitation at the Twenty-fourth Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America, at Pittsburgh, Nov. ![]() An X-ray Study of the Lungs of Workmen in the Asbestos Industry, Covering a Period of ten Years, An X-ray Study of the Lungs of Workmen in the Asbestos Industry, Covering a Period of ten Years,Īn X-ray Study of the Lungs of Workmen in the Asbestos Industry, Covering a Period of ten Years 1, 2 Arial W. ![]()
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